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Professor Lauren Fitzgerald chairs the Yeshiva College English Department and directs the Wilf Campus Writing Center, which, along with the Beren Writing Center, is celebrating its 30 th anniversary. In the YC English department, she teaches courses on academic writing, digital and multimodal ...

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America issued this striking seal in July 1934 as part of the activity of its Religious Reconstruction [Fund] Committee. One of these rare seals was recently acquired by the Yeshiva University Archives. The Religious Reconstruction Fund Committee was ...

Shimon Peres, elder statesman and former Prime Minister and President of Israel, died yesterday. In July 1986 Peres was presented with Yeshiva University’s Centennial Medallion in a ceremony at the Knesset at the University's historic Centennial Leadership Gathering in Israel. He received an ...

Naomi Kohl began her role as Director of Student Life on the Beren Campus this past summer. A Stern, Wurzweiler and Azrieli alumna, Naomi is best known for her time spent at the University of Maryland working in the Hillel as part of the JLIC couple with her husband, Rabbi Eli Kohl (‘03YC, ‘08R) ...

The possibility of a woman becoming President for the first time in the nation’s 240-year history piqued our interest in various mileposts for women in YU’s timeline. Below are some “female firsts” at Yeshiva University, courtesy of the collections of Yeshiva University Archives. The first woman to…

Sponsored parking is available in the YU lot (E) on Amsterdam Avenue and 183rd Street. The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a lecture: A Prayer From the Depths and the Depths of a Prayer: Jonah’s Quest for Eden and the 70 Faces of the Bible By Dr. Yitzhak Berger Newly…

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a discussion: Elul: The Season of Repentance 7:00 PM: A Time of Soul Searching: The Yiddishist Intelligentsia and the Crisis of 1939 DR. JOSHUA KARLIP Associate Professor of Jewish History at Revel In their youth, East European ...

With a gift from the Mitrani Foundation and the support of Karen Bacon, Dean of the Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the lower-level periodical room in the Hedi Steinberg Library on the Beren Campus is being transformed into a much-needed set of spaces devoted to study and collaboration…

Do you have fond memories of summer camp? Jewish summer camps for youth, which billed themselves as American camps with a Jewish spirit, started to become popular in the 1920s. Yeshiva University Archives holds numerous brochures, publicity materials, and camp publications from the 1920s and 1930s…